WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
IPE STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
MINUTES
DECEMBER 17, 2014 – 1:00 P.M.
HSC ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE ROOM
Those attending:
Georgia Narsavage, Director, Office of InterProfessional Education
Rachel Abraham, MD, MPH, Director, Workforce Development and Extended Learning,
School of Public Health
Charles (Chuck) Coole, BA, Grant Education Coordinator, IPE
Rebecca (Becky) Kromar, RN, DNP, MBA, School of Nursing
Elisabeth Shelton, RN, PhD, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Nursing
Ralph Utzman, PT, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor; Academic Coordinator of Clinic
Education
Travis White, PharmD, BCACP, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy
Scott Cottrell, EDD, Associate Dean, Student Services, School of Medicine
Rashida Khakoo, MD, MACP, Professor and Section Chief, School of Medicine
Michael Mueller, Student, School of Medicine
David Wilks, MD, Professor, School of Medicine
Mary Stamatakis, PHARMD, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Pharmacy
Those unable to attend:
Amy Burt, MOT, OTY/L, Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy
Christina DeBiase, MA, EdD, Associate Dan for Academic Affairs, School of Dentistry
Mary Beth Mandich, PT, PhD, Associate Dean, Professional Programs, School of Medicine
and Chair, Physical Therapy
Louise Veselicky, DDS, MDS, Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs, HSC
April Vestal, MPH, Associate Director, Institute for Community and Rural Health
REVIEW OF MINUTES AND UPDATES –November 19, 2014
Dr. Narsavage opened the meeting at 1:00 p.m. and asked for any changes or additions to the
November 19, 2014 Minutes. Mary Stamatakis was unable to attend and needs to be added to the
list. The Minutes were approved as corrected.
UPDATE ON IPE OFFICE ACTIVITIES
IPE Speaker Series- Rachel Abraham reported that Anne Cather could not make the
tentative date of January 23rd and asked if she could try for another faculty person from
SOM to present on the My First Patient program. She will follow up with Dr. Cather to see
if there is anyone else who was involved. All would prefer if a date could be found when
Anne could be a co-presenter. Suggested date for January 28 will be confirmed with Dr.
Veselicky and with Dr. Cather joining for discussion if she can.
03/13 was suggested as date for SOM IPE with Scott Cottrell and Dean Ross – Scott cannot
make that date and suggested moving to 03/03 or 03/10. Rachel will check with Dean
Ross.
04/10 will be the IPE Faculty Workshop day and will be held in the IPE classrooms –
speakers on Communication from The Alda Center for Communicating Science (NY) have
been asked to present.
04/22 date with Woody Moss as speaker on IPE and Ethics
Faculty training sessions – outcome from December 12 and 15, 2014 review of “quiz”
on abbreviations used in different professions.
The communication abbreviations test was discussed and it was decided that no word
definitions would be included. There was a need for abbreviations from medicine and Dr.
Cottrell supplied them – the Quiz will be revised and used as prework for session 3 or 4.
Plan for “Communication” faculty development workshop – April 10, 2014
Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
Georgia gave a brief description of the workshop based on their website descriptions and
her discussion with the director of the center, Dr. Evonne Kaplan-Liss. Contact to the WVU
Media school and the Creative arts College will attempt to involve those faculty as
instructors.
Participants will be introduced to Alda Center methods for better science
communication, and undergo a sampling of the kind of small-group, interactive
training that we have been providing for science graduate students and postdocs.
This training will include sessions in Improvisation for Scientists and Distilling
Your Message. In addition, the program will include presentations and
discussions about best practices, the role of science communication. Sessions will
be led by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science instructors.
http://www.centerforcommunicatingscience.org/the-alda-center-summer-institute/
Planned support for Macy and HRSA grant development
Georgia is confirming a team to help prepare an application to the Macy foundation for a 5
year faculty development plan. Currently Drs. Abraham, DeBiase, Stamatakis, and Khakoo
are involved in preparation of the letter of intent. Drs. Cottrell, Shelton, and Utzman will
identify individuals from their areas to participate, or be involved directly so the application
represents their schools/programs. Georgia is working
UPDATE ON BENEDUM COMMUNITY-BASED CARE GRANT RFP
DISTRIBUTION
We just received a sub-grant proposal from Leslie Cottrell working with Co-Director Scott
Cottrell and community agencies (FQHC or PCC) identified by Cecil Pollard and Adam
Baus (SPH). The project is titled IPE Health Sciences Research Scholars Program. The
budget request is for $9701 to fund 2 to 6 student scholars for translational research
projects. The proposal will be sent for review.
Update on planning for spring 2015 sessions using Team-Stepps:
IPE Session 3 – Communication - Becky Kromar reported on faculty training sessions and
there was discussion on the flow chart on whether to leave it in of take it out. The final
decision was to take it out for students and leave it in for faculty. There was a discussion of
how students can view the tweeted responses – Becky found out that using # tweet versus
using @tweet allows others to view it.
IPE Session 4 – Quality and Safety – Program in a box from WHO – and overview from
Becky Kromar on the topic included its use as a culmination for the students to show
application of their IPE competencies. The program will be held at the WVU Alumni Center. The
keynote speaker will be Jeff Goode, PT, MBA, FACHE, an administrator at CAMC. A SOLE
surveyor use of 5x7 cards might address: What two things will you try to do for Quality and
Safety in taking care of a patient after this session?
There was discussion on options for getting students to the Alumni Center – The decision
was that they should walk except for students with disabilities and the Office of
Accessibility Service will be contacted.
IPEC meeting SOLE survey planning
Chuck Coole reported that the SOLE site was nearly ready. There was discussion on
alternative methods for building a site like this such as using school rosters and importing
them into SOLE. Chuck will look into this if there needs to be another site built similar to
this one. He will notify faculty when the survey site is ready so they can review it.
We would like to pilot a SOLE short answer (500 words?) question with a “grading rubric”
to be reviewed by faculty participating in IPE – suggested question is
How could what you learned during the 4 IPE sessions influence patient care?
Please address the 4 sessions (Professional Roles/Teamwork/ Communication/ Quality
& Safety) in your response and limit it to 500 words.
The discussion on the “grading rubric” on how to construct and who would grade. The
rubric could be the details and inclusion of the 4 areas in the response. Diana Davis has
samples of using a rubric for this kind of grading. The decision was that faculty from
each profession would do the grading – not the facilitating faculty member since
programs each might have different grading options to be considered. Thus it would be
set up on the different platforms and submitted with grades by program. Dr. Narsavage
indicated that she need outcomes but not total access to the replies and grades.
Discussion followed on various mechanisms to create a site within each discipline. Dr.
Khakoo indicated that medical students use the e-value platform and Maria Abate could
help with it. Chuck will follow up with the schools to identify the format they need to
upload the questions for short answer as described above.
IPE PROGRAM EVALUATION: Georgia requested collection of IPE data from last 3
years. She would like the information from each discipline without creating extra work and
has asked each steering committee member to respond individually to her with what might
be useful. Dr. Wilkes suggested that Bill Tullock’s program with simulation and outcome
data could be included.
We also would like to use the WVU Standard SEI questions as a “course” evaluation. Dr.
Stamatakis said she would work with Georgia to identify questions that could be used (see
attached). DR. Cottrell suggested using PBL. The survey would be set up in the schools
using the platform they use – it is expected that many will use SOLE. The SEI-type
evaluation would not be in conjunction with the writing assignment
Dr. Rashida Khakoo – noted that there would be Summer Teaching Scholars again this
summer and suggested that a ½ day IPE session be used to showcase IPE with workshops
like we had last year for IPE designed by faculty.
Chuck Coole will check with Francine Mocniak on the next semester meeting dates and get
that information to Mike Mueller. We will try to set a repeated day and time monthly if
possible.